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Ampheraster FISHER 1923

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AMPHERASTER FISHER, 1923

Ampheraster Fisher, 1923: 253; 1928: 80; Downey, 1971: 51; 1973: 90; Clark & Downey, 1992: 407; Clark & Mah, 2001: 237.

Notes

Published as part of Mah, Christopher, 2007, Phylogeny of the Zoroasteridae (Zorocallina; Forcipulatida): evolutionary events in deep-sea Asteroidea displaying Palaeozoic features, pp. 177-210 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 150 (1) on page 198, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00291.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5430876

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
FISHER
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Echinodermata
Order
Forcipulatida
Family
Pedicellasteridae
Genus
Ampheraster
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Ampheraster FISHER, 1923 sec. Mah, 2007

References

  • Fisher WK. 1923. A preliminary synopsis of the Asteriidae, a family of seastars. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12: 247 - 258.
  • Fisher WK. 1928. Asteroidea of the North Pacific and Adjacent Waters, Part 2: Forcipulata (Part). Bulletin of the United States National Museum 76: 1 - 245.
  • Downey ME. 1971. Ampheraster alaminos, a new species of the family Asteriidae (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) from the Gulf of Mexico. Proceedings of the Biology Society of Washington 84 (6): 51 - 54.
  • Downey ME. 1973. Starfishes from the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 126: 1 - 158.
  • Clark AM, Downey ME. 1992. Starfishes of the Atlantic. Chapman & Hall, London.
  • Clark AM, Mah C. 2001. An index of names of recent Asteroidea- Part 4: Forcipulatida and Brisingida. Echinoderm Studies 6: 229 - 347.